Let in the ftreme, which with gret paine Where lawe lacketh errour groweth, And thus the comun clamour is His god, whiche ever stant in one, Which caufeth al that a man dothe. He blameth that is nought to blame Nota contra hoc, quod aliqui fortem fortune, aliqui influenciam planetarum ponunt, per quod ut dicitur rerum eventus neceffario contingit, fed pocius dicendum eft, quod ea que nos profpera et adversa in hoc mundo vocamus fecundum merita et demerita hominum, digno dei judicio proveniunt. And preiseth that is nought to preise. Of us, that shulde us better avife. The worlde arifte and falleth with al, So that the man is over al His owne cause of wele and wo. Out of the man him felfe it groweth, And who that other wife troweth For ever while they deden wel And whan they deden the contraire So that it proveth wel at ende, And may no while ftonde ful, Though that it feme wel befein, For every worldes thinge is vein And ever goth the whele aboute And ever ftant a man in doute, Fortune ftant no while ftille. So hath ther no man al his wille, Als far as ever a man may knowe There lafteth no thing but a throwe. The world stant ever upon debate, amaritudine afper- So may be fiker none estate, Boetius. O, quam dulcedo humane vite multa fa eft. Stant, why no worldes thing may laste, Til it be drive to the laste, And fro the firfte regne of all Unto this day how so befall Of that the regnes be mevable, Profper et adverfus obliquo tramite verfus In fuche a wife, as thou fhalt here, To Daniel of this matere, 5. Hic in prologo tractat de ftatua illa, quam rex Nabugodonofor viderat in fompnis, cuius caput aureum, pectus argenteum, venter eneus, tibie ferree, pedum vero quedam pars ferrea, quedam fictilis videbatur, fub qua mem How that this world fhal torne and wende brorum diverfitate fe Hic narrat ulterius de quodam lapide grandi, qui ut in As Nabugodonofor flepte A fweven him toke, the whiche he kepte Til on the morwe he was arife, Til Daniel his dreme he tolde And praid him faire, that he wolde And faide: a bedde where I lay The wombe and al down to the kne And tho me thought, that I figh tuam corruens ipfam quafi in nichilum penitus contrivit. This was the fweven which he had, And faide him: that figure ftraunge Of filver that was over forthe But He figh the feet departed fo, For erth, which meined is with steel, But if that one that other waste, The ftone, whiche fro the hilly stage ymage And hath it into pouder broke, Hic loquitur de interpretacione fompnii, et primo dicit de fignificacione capitis aurei. De pectore argenteo. De ventre eneo. De tibeis ferreis. De fignificacione pedum, qui ex duabus materiis difcordantibus ad invicem divifi extiterunt. De lapidis ftatuam confringentis fignificacione. |